Deb Brown Email & Phone Number

Newtown, Pa, Us

Working in collaboration with clients to turn complex business challenges into real business outcomes.

Los Angeles, California, Us

NuORDER is the leading B2B eCommerce platform connecting more than 3,500 BRANDS and 500,000 RETAILERS to collaborate, grow and win together: - BRANDS are using NuORDER to deliver a visual, seamless and more collaborative wholesale process. - RETAILERS leverage NUORDER for buyers to browse products, visually plan and curate assortments, and create bulk or by-door, sized orders. Buyers create assortment rollups and visual style outs resulting in making smarter buying decisions in real-time.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Led cross-functional teams for strategic Marketing Loyalty Product initiatives for a major retailer. Key customer advocate, ensuring the voice of the customer is embedded in key business decisions and product design.

New York, Ny, Us

Product Domain Champion. Owner of the product vision, strategy and roadmap - defining, prioritizing and communicating product and customer requirements by aligning key stakeholders and working in partnership with engineering to deliver business KPI’s. • Launched $35MM off-price distribution facility by providing the vision and roadmap strategy for process and technology required to support accelerated growth to 220+ locations; $500MM annual sales. • Program lead for $12MM Master Data Management (MDM) strategy updating database technologies to reduce redundancy, costs and product onboarding time. Gained stakeholders and sponsors alignment. Ensured timely development of design, business and project scope documents. Leveraged agile (SCRUM) methodologies.• Oversaw strategic enhancements for 30% growth of online digital product offering through vendor direct marketplace growth initiative; added 1MM products and 1000 new vendors.• Initiated ML/ AI initiatives using lean lab test & learn methodology for content management, image attribution, and content auditing; reduced product onboarding time from weeks to days and improved accuracy 17%.• Change Leader for transition/ implementation to a Product Management organization. • Directed 6-8 Product Managers serving as a point of escalation for blockers, tradeoffs/ impacts guidance, support in navigating the organization. Promoted 40% (3) to senior Manager.• Implemented 3-year roadmap for scalability initiatives to support business growth. Delivered 2x growth in year one; three-year plan to support 10x growth.

New York, Ny, Us

Domain owner for retail merchandising initiatives. Built and leveraged relationships to influence and align sponsors, stakeholders, and working groups. Prioritized multiple work streams to impact target KPIs.• Directed Agile/Lean development an integrated Market Prep Tool. Partnered to deliver training; achieved 80% adoption in first year.• Oversaw the rapid prototyping development of a web based- mobile image application for integration with enterprise assortment and attribution systems; 10% workload reduction.• Portfolio oversight for $10-$12MM annual budget, forecasting and variance mitigation. • Championed engagement around business outcomes among sponsors, stakeholders, system owners, and working groups• Maintained high functioning partnerships with technology and program peers to deliver high value slices of systemic functionality

Recommended, directed and implemented business solutions and growth strategies through improvements to current systems or implementation of new information technology. Aligned with key senior stakeholders on Portfolio funding, initiative prioritization and delivery business KPI's.• Conceptualized and led process and technology initiatives for launch of $500MM retail division.• 2016 Best of the Best Chairman’s Award; 2016 Make Magic Award• Partnered to launch Macy’s China Limited (international online channel) by collaborating with cross functional and global partners. Delivered content management, assortment curation & fulfilment solutions.• Provided leadership for the agile delivery of a real time supply chain order and receipt visibility tool for multi-channel selling. Reduced workload by 10%; eliminated eight disparate tools.• 2013 Innovation Award

New York, Ny, Us

Directed change management and implementation of new national Advanced Receiving office; centralizing team of 20+ analysts, launching new tools, streamlining processes and reducing supply chain expense.

New York, Ny, Us

Increased scope of responsibility from Manager to Director to Divisional Vice President. Directed team of 30+ executives to serve as support and front-line resources for merchandising, big ticket, supply chain and store pricing systems, tools and solutions technology.